Tasting the Forbidden
The man’s gray eyes settled on me, lingering for a moment there.
I wondered what he saw in me. A broken she-wolf unable to shift, or a teen too proud to give in to peer pressure, refusing to give her first time to just about anyone… I wasn’t sure, and I wasn’t about to ask him either. I just hoped he hadn’t paid attention to Jake’s words.
I was promptly disillusioned.
“Don’t let his words get to you, Parkers,” Mr Blackwood said solemnly, and then he was onto his nonchalant way out of the canteen.